My commands project...

I'm not abandoning this project here, but when you start something you sometimes learn how not to do it, or get ideas how better to go about it. With the Bible you always have to be savvy in how you go about projects like this because of the sheer volume of words and pages, otherwise you'll get bogged down in an impractical endeavor and never finish it. I felt a momentum in the project as I was doing it, though, and think it's doable, but as I started in on the gospel of Matthew I realized I have to go about it a new way. I'm simply going to use a wide-margin KJV and note down commands in pithy, well-formulated terms and phrases in the margins for each book.

It is something that should be done, by the way. If I put in a similar effort with the entire main sources of the Work I should do the same with the actual word of God.

And not as some forced, "I'm doing good" project, but to truly find what the Bible actually tells us to "do." I may limit myself to the New Testament (for practical reasons, at least at first). The New Testament is a doable length for this type of project. The Old Testament will have to be done just in the course of a complete reading, and not being completist in jotting down every command, but unique ones maybe that aren't found in the N.T. or that are expressed in a unique way. This effort gets at the practical level of the actual word of God, and pays off. I'll also categorize the commands and generalize them and put them in a basic list. For myself, but I'll also post it... (Of course, doing it yourself is more profitable in infinite ways...)

It's a really big thing, a foundational thing, a central thing, a rare thing, a powerful thing, to go through the entire New Testament and isolate and write down all the positive commands -- the "what you do" commands - and gather them and sort them and put them to memory and understanding and into practice.